PPI in the News

The Real Problem with Colleges’ Business Model

In the Slate blog Money Box, Mathew Yglesias argues that the decrease of college graduates’ earnings is related to the irrelevant business model followed by…

Booming Data Economy Puts EU to the Test

In an article for Euractiv, Jeremy Fleming calls for a new regulation adapted to the data economy in Europe. He cites Michael Mandel’s policy brief…

What Superdome Blackout Says About American Competitiveness

In his Forbes article, Thomas J. Basile argues that the Superdome Blackout is a symbol of America’s aging infrastructures which drive down American Competitiveness. He…

What Privacy Means to Americans vs. Europeans

Paul W. Taylor discusses the different attitudes towards privacy in American and European contexts in Governing Magazine, using PPI’s recent conference in Rome as a backdrop….

Fannie and Freddie’s Fate

In a Letter to the Editor of The New York Times, Jason Gold argues that the Times’ editorial gets it wrong and the Obama administration…

Will Marshall on Obama’s Fiscal Cliff Policy

Writing for Politico‘s Arena , PPI President Will Marshall discuses Obama’s fiscal cliff policy: President Obama holds the whip hand on taxes. He campaigned and…

Washington Insiders Tackle ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Policy Solutions

Will Marshall was a panelist at the Fix The Debt policy conference on Tuesday, Dec. 4, discussing two of the biggest issues surrounding federal budget deficits…

Weinstein on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal

PPI Senior Fellow Paul Weinstein was a guest on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal discussing the role that the recommendations of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility…

Democrats Must Step Up on Entitlement Reform for Fiscal Cliff Deal

PPI President Will Marshall speaks to The Daily Beast regarding the compromises needed from the left to avoid the fiscal cliff: ‘It appears President Obama…

Company Spending Cuts, Blame the Cliff?

PPI Chief Economic Strategist Michael Mandel explains on CNBC’s “Closing Bell” why tech investment is at a record high in spite of the looming fiscal…